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Incremental expenditure for hospital care associated infections [PDF]

open access: yesAl Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019
Background: Hospital care associated infections [HAI] are time varying and they substantially increase the burden for the patients, relatives, Payers, Third party Administrators and Hospital Administrators.
K.S. Sarala   +2 more
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Economic Impact of Hospital Closure on Rural Communities in Three Southern States: Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. A Quasi-Experimental Approach.

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The important contribution of hospitals to the economies of rural areas has been the subject of several research studies. The results, however, have been contradictory.
Freshwater, David   +2 more
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Changes in Hospital Efficiency after Privatization [PDF]

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We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a ...
Oliver Tiemann, Jonas Schreyögg
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Behavioral Economics and Health Economics [PDF]

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The health sector is filled with institutions and decision-making circumstances that create friction in markets and cognitive errors by decision makers.
Richard G. Frank
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From Parallel Provision to Health System Integration: Exploring the Trajectory and Contextual Drivers of the Healthcare Response for Refugees in Six Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Measuring Changes in US Rural Residents' Access to Hospital Services from 1980 to 1999

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Questions of access to hospital services figure centrally in rural-health policy debates, yet few analyses exist that measure the importance of changes in hospital access in rural areas of the US. Of the studies that measure changes in access to hospital
McNamara, Paul E.
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Hospital Car Parking: The Impact of Access Costs [PDF]

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NHS Trusts have statutory powers to raise income, which allow them to decide whether to charge, and how much to charge, for hospital car parking. Trusts are not obliged to provide parking facilities on their premises, but provision will inevitably incur ...
Anne Mason
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(Intending) Migrants and Occupational Downgrading: Investigating the Willingness to Leave the Health Sector Post‐Migration

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The unquenched thirst for emigration in Nigeria‐ and the increasing cost of migrating to the West‐has been established in the literature. Professionals, such as healthcare workers (HCWs), are poorly paid in Nigeria, making many seek better employment abroad.
Tunde A. Alabi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of starting oral intake on weekends on the clinical course of patients with aspiration pneumonia

open access: yesClinical Interventions in Aging, 2018
Tsuneaki Kenzaka,1,2 Ayako Kumabe,2 Koki Kosami,2 Yuki Ueda,2 Takeshi Takahashi,3 Yuya Yamamoto,4 Yurika Hayashi,4 Akihito Kitao,4 Masanobu Okayama5 1Division of Community Medicine and Career Development, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine ...
Kenzaka T   +8 more
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The cost of the district hospital : a case study from Malawi [PDF]

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The author analyzes the cost to the Ministry of Health of providing district health services in Malawi, with an emphasis on the cost of the district hospital.
Mills, A.J.
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